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ILLINOIS INST., ETC. v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF LABOR

No. 81 C 1629.

545 F.Supp. 1229 (1982)

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION, an Illinois nonprofit corporation, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, an agency of the executive branch of the United States government, Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor, Thorne Auchter, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, Alfred Zuck, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management, Office of Management and Budget, an agency of the executive branch of the United States government, and David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

August 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Freeborn, Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar, & Poust, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Roderick Palmore, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Thomas R. Kline, Andrew M. Wolfe, Barbara L. Gordon, J. Paul McGruth, Asst. Attys. Gen., Washington, D. C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

This case requires us to construe the term "agency records" under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976), in a somewhat unusual context. Plaintiff Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seeks disclosure of a two volume "briefing book" on the United States Department of Labor (DOL) prepared by then President-elect Reagan's transition staff in December of 1980. Named...

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